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The facade of the temple is filled with intricate sculptures and friezes with no portion left blank. The intricate workmanship includes elephants, lions, horses, episodes from the Indian mythological epics, and sensuous dancers (Shilabalikas). Inside the temple are a number of ornate pillars. Darpana Sundari (Lady with the mirror) ...

... the night with all our crazy stories.Next morning, we visited the coffee plantation and trekked a small part of the hill to go river rafting. But as the river was shallow, they cancelled it and took us on Bamboo rafting. Not so impressive as the weather was so hot and we were moving very slow. After that, we took the long ride back to Bengaluru and I directly went to the ...

... we had looked at this stone carved temple we sprinted back to the car, only to find our driver wasn't there and the car was locked. We found a shaded spot by the car (which was still hot) and hopped around like idiots waiting for our driver to return. He eventually returned, and with the skin on our feet only just intact we drove to our final destination of Chikmaglur. ---> thankfully it was cooler here, it even ...

... the Western Ghats. I love the way a road climbs up around a mountain like a creeper around a tree. What can I say? I guess curves turn me on. Anyway, we reached Chikamagalur without incident and headed directly to SK Residency. Sayon had stayed there before and the hotel proved to be decent enough. The owner gave us a ...

... I didn't count, but there were multi hundreds of steps carved right out of the granite mountain surface). And as all temples in India require, you can only visit barefoot. So, the whole climb was traveled with buff feet! There were hundreds of old and young people alighting to the top of mountain, some fast and some not. School kids raced upwards, while some of the "aunties" and “uncles” (the euphemism Indians and others around the world refer to older people ...